Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmThe Perks of Being a Wallflower
There’s a great tragedy at the heart of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it isn’t the crippling loneliness felt by its protagonist Charlie (L... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
ArtEdinburgh Printmakers – Own Art
Edinburgh Printmakers is a quiet, welcoming wee place to visit, despite its proximity to the hustle and bustle of the capital’s centre. You would never... Read more »| 10 Oct 2012 -
MusicAlice Cooper: Keepin' Halloween Alive
Alice Cooper casts his predictions for costume choices at his Halloween Night of Fear (Iron Man, anyone?) and muses on the season’s ever-escalating appeal Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Music
This Many Boyfriends – This Many Boyfriends
This Many Boyfriends’ scrappy-go-lucky debut wears its DNA like so many button badges. It’s in their name, a nod to Beat Happening. It’s i... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Clubs
Tiger & Woods and Tensnake @ Naive, Chambre69, 23 October
Recent years have seen the release of countless disco re-edits. Many of these are merely extended loops, edited in a simple manner, often lacking imagination... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Art
DashnDem & Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen @ DCA
DashnDem’s Imagine Being a World Leader adorns Gallery 1 of the DCA with all the artifice of the political Summit; a red carpet, the backdrop of a stat... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012
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Clubs
DJ MikeQ @ Killer Kitsch, Buff Club, 16-17 October
The re-emergence of musical sub-genres usually requires a willing ambassador at the helm, taking the sound beyond its original parameters and geographical bo... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
MusicPAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
MusicOmar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Art
Sonica 2012: Adventures in Sound
From the team behind Cryptic Nights, Sonica offers a programme dedicated to presenting sonic art for the visually minded in venues across the city of Glasgow Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Tig Notaro – Live!
Comedy has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Aggresive, misogynistic, tolerant of rape and, worst of all, a bit pointless. That final char... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Comedy
Crystal Baws: October 2012 Horoscopes
ARIES Your intestinal parasite has gotten rather large lately, and this month things cross a very special barrier when you finally become the parasite trappe... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Music
The Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Film
Who'll Blink First?: Filming Ai Weiwei
With her documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry out on DVD on the 8 Oct, The Skinny talks to director Alison Klayman about the challenges involved in creating her sympathetic portrait of a complex man. Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Film
Ruby Sparks
Not another indie movie, Ruby Sparks is the second feature from Little Miss Sunshine directing duo Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. Penned by actress Zoe ... Read more »| 05 Oct 2012